This section assembles relevant observation results collected on the patient or produced on in-vitro biologic specimens collected from the patient. Some of these results may be laboratory results, others may be anatomic pathology results, others, radiology results, and others, clinical results.
The structured, machine-processable content of this section is sorted out between as many Result Organizer entries as needed. One Result Organizer entry groups results, which have a common context of production:
- common specialty (imaging, bacteriology, serology, chemistry, surgical pathology, clinical, radiology ...),
- common overall interpretation, (which interprets the set of results of the
Organizer),
- common biologic specimen for in vitro diagnostic observations,
- common associated illustrative image.
The optional author and informant elements of the section are used when necessary to convey the provenance and authoring of the section content in case it is different from what is announced in the CDA header.
In case this section assembles results from multiple authors (e.g.; results authored by a clinical laboratory, and results produced by a radiology center), the authors are listed in the section, and each Result Organizer of the section indicates its own author(s).
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